Location: San Sebastian (Spain)
Contract: Scholarship
Working day: Full time
Sector: Energy
Vacancies: 1
Discipline: R&DJoin TECNALIA !! In TECNALIA we promote sustainable growth and face the greatest technological challenges of humanity transforming them into opportunities. We help society and companies to grow through technological innovations. We are committed to gender equality, diversity and promote family-work balance policy. You will work in a highly qualified team of technological excellence, in an international and multidisciplinary environment.
The Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) – Tecnalia (San-Sebastien, Spain) In-Country PhD Program and Scholarship offers research students an outstanding opportunity to study internationally, working in an industry-based environment alongside world-class researchers in the field of materials science across two continents.
An in-country PhD program provides students with enrolment in Deakin’s PhD program, based primarily off-campus in a real world industry setting. Students are co-supervised by a principal supervisor who is an experienced member of Deakin’s academic research staff and a supervisor from a technology centre (TECNALIA), who is an expert in the field of research. Students are required to meet Deakin’s PhD program requirements.
The Deakin – Tecnalia In-Country PhD Program and Scholarship offers students enrolment in Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), one of Australia's leading materials research organizations. Students complete the majority of the program at Tecnalia, the first privately funded applied research & technology organization in Spain and one of the leading such centres in Europe. Although students are primarily based at Tecnalia in Spain, the program requires periods of study on-campus at IFM in Australia. In the first and third years of the program, students will spend periods of 6 months and 1 week respectively at IFM.
The aim of the PhD project is to develop anti-corrosion coating systems for a carbon steel substrate. The objective of the project is to develop a self-repair assembly with controlled release of corrosion inhibitors. The inhibitors should be stored in suitable containers, preventing leaking, and then released in case of corrosion attack. The systems will consist of a hybrid matrix and corrosion inhibitors encapsulated into specific nano/micro-containers.
The PhD project will be co-supervised by Professor Maria Forsyth and Dr Anthony Somers from Deakin University and Dr Fabiola Brusciotti from Tecnalia.
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